MIRANDA ROAD.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4715, 23 June 1924, Page 2

MIRANDA ROAD.

Sir, — A. report appeared in youi paper recently that it was not practical to make a road at Miranda. Well, 1 have been paying rates for twentylive years, and have not seen any serious effort made to form the road. All that has been done to this road was done by the settlers, under the supervision of Mr Higgins. This work consisted of forming up a portion of. the road three feet—a foot above the tide level. At other places .the sea Washes over the road into the fields on the other side, and the outlet for this water is the Waiwere Stream. The pipes put in at this place are much too small, and were not necessary because there was a beautiful ford at this spot. These concerte pipes were delivered when the Thames County Council was the controlling authority, and vecause they were laying there when the Plains County was formed our council used them; but were these pipes three times the size they would, not cope with the water. To give relief floodgates should be erected on every bridge on this section of road and where the sea washes over. We suffered our money to be used on the Waitakaruru road, with a promise that it would be refunded, and I hope our member will still see to it. But for two hills and three or four miles unfinished the Miranda road would be one of the finest roads in the country. I have travelled over the county roads on the ..Plains, and the system of giavelling them to my mind is not right. The gravel when taken from the beaches should be .screened. This is not done, however, and in consequence one-third of it is sand, which washes out with the rain and ruins the surface. As for a metal supply, the completion of a line to Mangatangi would tap a deposit sufficient to make the road from Pokeno to the Waikato, as well as those on the Plains. The metal taken from the hills at Miranda and spread on the Waitakaruru road looks good, and that from Findlay’s quarry is very good indeed, being similar to that used on Cleveland roads. This latter metal is shot out of the quarry and carted on to the roads in any form, and there broken up by surfacemen, ROBERT COXHEAD. Sunny Bray, Miranda,